The former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion was the other name that was vying for a shot at Jon Jones after his ‘Fight of the Year’ performance against Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua at UFC 139 last November.

Henderson was originally offered a fight with Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, but turned it down on the prospect that he could still get a fight with Jones.

Now that Rashad Evans has been given the next shot at Jones, it appears Henderson is happy to sit and wait for the winner of that fight later this year.

“Dan Henderson’s in a position right now where it looks like he wants to wait for Jon Jones,” UFC President Dana White said on Thursday. “We’ll see what happens with this Rashad fight.”

Traditionally, Henderson has been a fighter that hasn’t enjoyed sitting out for long periods of time, and reportedly called White asking to compete again right after his last bout with Rua ended.

Now it looks like Henderson would rather wait for his opportunity to fight for the UFC title as opposed to taking another fight for the time being.

Good cause the only 2 people that deserve to fight him right now are both fighting for the title. I could a rematch wit rampage when he wins and mayb Shad or bones get hurt when they fight so to avoid a longer lay-off a huge fight with rampage would make sense.

ChiTown420

^See a rematch:/

ChiTown420

RampageVsHendo on UfcOnFox4 the first fight got huge ratings why not?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658789999 paulgould

he definately deserves his shot he left the UFC the first time cause he wasnt gettin his shot now he can good on him for waiting hope he smokes it wen he gets his shot

KingSlaughter

henderson should fight one more time…its gonna be a long wait…if rampage beats bader impressively than hendo should definitely fight rampage next

paulsr

Rampage is finished,he wants to box,
he has no ground game!

fsunoles09

bro rampage was a wrestler before he even came to mma dumbass

bajafox

Let him wait, even though I’d like to see him fight one more time he deserves it and the UFC owe’s it to him.

Hope he’s well rested when the time comes, it’d be great to see him hold the belt one more time